I'm interested in having Strawberry Perl as a dependency of MsysGit. That project is recently having success compiling code (e.g. git-svn) against MinGW Perl, whereas in the past they had to settle for the slower msys Perl. In my mind, this opens up the possibility of using SP as MsysGit's Perl.
If I understand SP correctly, it is an MinGW Perl, i.e. it does not rely on the "mini cygwin" POSIX stuff of msys. Correct? If so, then perhaps this ticket could be reopened: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=218 My question springs from one of Dscho's requirements in that ticket: > provid[e] patches to msysgit.git that add a compile recipe > (at the moment, we can compile Perl from scratch, if we > cannot do that with Strawberry Perl, I will not accept it), Does Perl-Dist-WiX allow for this possibility? Can one compile SP from the command line and save the results for install via script? Basically, instead of shipping SP with MsysGit pre-compiled in it's own MSI installer, it sounds like it would need to be compiled from source when the Git for Windows MSI installer is generated. Then the Git for Windows installer would take care of placing the pieces correctly on the end user's system. Finally, if this does seem within the realm of possibility, where is the SP development code tracked? (i.e. where is the git or svn repository?) Thanks, Phil Lawrence PS - My description of the msysgit project should not be viewed as necessarily accurate. I'm pretty new there, with little code exposure.
